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India confirms first case of monkeypox in WHO South-East Asia Region
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 15 (ANI): The first case of monkeypox in WHO South-East Asia Region has been reported from India, in a 35-year old man who arrived from the Middle East earlier this week.
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WHO hopes Jamnagar traditional medicine facility boosts global wellbeing
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): As India is set to establish WHO Global Centre for traditional medicine in Gujarat's Jamnagar, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, on Tuesday said that it will be a hub of excellence which will help deliver safe, effect
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Global Centre for traditional medicine in India could be game-changer: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): With India set to establish WHO Global Centre for traditional medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region has called it a "game-changer."
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Can't dismiss as 'mild', Omicron spreading faster than other Covid-19 vari
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Amid concerns arising out of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region on Thursday said that Omicron appears to be spreading faster than any other previous variant and added that one should
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COVID Omicron variant: WHO asks countries in South-East Asia Region to be
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 27 (ANI): In view of the surge in COVID-19 cases globally and detection of new variant of Omicron, the World Health Organization on Saturday appealed to countries in South-East Asia Region to scale up surveillance, strengthen public health and social measures,
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Health Ministers of South-East Asia Region commit to renew efforts to end
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 26 (ANI): The Ministers of Health of countries in WHO South-East Asia Region on Tuesday committed to renew and accelerate efforts to end tuberculosis, in view of the pandemic disrupting services and leading to increase in TB cases in the already high-burden Region.
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Countries have to rebuild health systems when government revenues are unde
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], September 6 (ANI): As the five-day Regional Committee meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Region began on Monday, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director of World Health Organization South-East Asia emphasised that countries have to rebuild their health systems at a ti
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Health Ministers from WHO's South-East Asia region to discuss COVID, healt
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 3 (ANI): Health ministers of member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region will deliberate next week on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and measures to 'build back better' essential health services to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).
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India achieved 99 pc coverage of DPT3 vaccine in 2021 amid COVID pandemic:
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): During the COVID-19 pandemic, India prioritised childhood immunisation programme as an essential service and achieved an all-time high coverage with DPT3 vaccine in the first quarter of 2021, said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director WHO South-E
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618.5 million doses administered in WHO South-East Asia Region, 489 millio
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): As much as 618.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in the World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Region till August 6, in which the maximum number of doses around 489 million have been administered in India, WHO observed.
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Focus on health in budget testimony to India's commitment to fight COVID-1
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Asserting that focus on health in 2021-22 Budget is a testimony to "India's commitment" to fight COVID-19, World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Director Poonam Khetrapal Singh on Monday lauded New Delhi for pro-actively handling pandem
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Member states adopt declaration on collective response to COVID-19 in Sout
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 11 (ANI): At the conclusion of the 73rd session of WHO South East Asia Region held under the Chairmanship of Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, Thailand, the Health Ministers of the member states agreed to the SEAR Member States' D
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